Hurricane Irene damage to PAS

Hearing of washouts at Gardner, and Charlemont, Landslide at East Portal, and a potential bridge loss at Charlemont. Not looking good.

Washout in North Adams and a deck movement in Williamstown as well. Most likely the tracks along 346 in Pownal are toast too.

From what I've seen on the web, I'd imagine problems in the Shelburne Falls area would be likely. Anyone have any word?

atholrail wrote:Hearing of washouts at Gardner, and Charlemont, Landslide at East Portal, and a potential bridge loss at Charlemont. Not looking good.

Few shots up on NERAIL... here's one showing damage at Charlemont:
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?20110 ... 099082.jpg

Others linked on the NERAIL main page show damage near the tunnel.

Where in Gardner did the washout occur?

Waiting for the ED4 recrew at East Deerfield yard...

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192692

After holding at CPF 385 for awhile awaiting permission into the OOS limits, I caught them at Wisdom Way...

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192693

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192694

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192695

Due to traffic around Greenfield I wasn't able to get to Bardwells in time, but did get him coming into Shelburne at CPF 398...

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192696

More Shelburne Falls...

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192697

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192698

And lastly the Red Barn in Buckland...


http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192699

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192700

http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=192701

Billy Wehmeyer W.F.P.T.

Mainline should be open again west of Deerfield tomorrow.

That's good news, I'd heard it may be OOS until the weekend.

Dunno what it was like on the prior post-Irene days, but on 08-31 between 0830 and 1200, except for MBCR, track cars, and ED495 and 495ED (covered in <Gardner Gawking>, the D-3 radio was remarkably quiet. One other transmission of note was D-3 just before noon telling AYMO it had to wait for 420 to go east before going west, bearing out newpylong's post of 08-30.
Thanks to the folks who linked and posted to NERAIL so we armchair-types could get to see just how bad it was.